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In a novel titled for a location in this play, the billionaire Robert Lemoine uses the poison 1080 to kill members of a gardening collective. In this play, a member of a group threatens to go to Aleppo to get revenge on a sailor’s wife. (10[1])This play’s title character says (10[2])“She should have died hereafter” (10[1])after learning (10[1])of (10[1])the death of a woman who thinks that character is too full of “the milk of human kindness.” (10[2])In this play, (10[1])a character describes life as “a tale / Told by an idiot” in a soliloquy before he notices that a forest (10[1])appears to be moving. (10[1])This play’s protagonist hears a prophecy about a time when “Birnam Wood… shall come against him” from the Weird Sisters. For 10 points, name this tragedy by Shakespeare about the killer of King Duncan, set in Scotland. ■END■

ANSWER: Macbeth [or The Tragedy of Macbeth] (The novel in the first line is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.)
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